PSY 1003 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Neuroticism, Personality Test, Social Desirability Bias
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Personality-a person"s unique set of behavioral traits. Trait is a behavioral disposition-tendency to behave in a certain way. Repression- keeping distressed thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious. Projection-when we take feelings we have that we feel are unacceptable and we project them onto someone else. Displacement-diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a substitute target. Regression-a reversion to immature patterns of behavior. Progression through stages, defense mechanisms, and whether ego can balance. Broke with freud-too much emphasis on sex. Collective unconscious- a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people"s ancestral past. Archetypes- emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning. Striving for superiority- a universal drive to adapt, improve, and master life"s challenges. Response tendencies-may change in the future as a result of new experience. Adds cognitive influence to traditional behaviorists ideas. Observational learning-occurs when an organism"s responding is influenced by the observation of others.
